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Facilities / Grounds

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Welcome to the Facilities & Grounds Department

The Facilities Department ensures a safe, effective and inspiring physical environment that supports and enhances teaching and learning at San Jose City College. We provide quality, professional and responsive custodial and grounds services to the college and visitors.

What Do Custodians Do?

San Jose City College Custodians clean over 500,000 square feet of space each day. This includes classrooms, offices, restrooms, laboratories, stairways, corridors, gymnasium, locker rooms, and common areas. Custodians also:

Assist in emergency response (power outages, floods, etc.)

Move furniture and equipment

Set up facilities for non-classroom activities that enrich the college experience for our students, including student activities, board meetings, career fairs, and KinderCaminata

Set up and provide support for outside organizations who rent our facilities

Act as campus "ambassadors,” pointing lost students and teachers in the direction of their classrooms during those first weeks of every semester

What Do Groundskeepers Do?

Our Grounds staff is responsible for planned improvements and routine maintenance of outdoor spaces including pruning, fertilizing, mowing, cleaning and keeping the grounds free of litter and graffiti.

Groundskeepers specialize in irrigation, chemical applications and tree maintenance. They take pride in tending the highly manicured lawns, perennial plantings and color variations that accent the campus creating a pleasing and safe environment.

Our Grounds team takes care of:

60 acres

13 parking lots, 2,005 parking spaces

Three sports fields

Landscaped acres

Landscaped islands with concrete curbs

Hundreds of trees and bushes

250 garbage cans

Five entrance gates

Benches and picnic tables

Set up and support for outside organizations who rent our facilities

Serving as "ambassadors" pointing lost students and teachers in the direction of their classrooms during those first weeks of every semester

Pest management

Street sweeping

Horticultural

Landscape

Lawn maintenance

Tree and shrub maintenance

Plant and flower bed maintenance

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Custodial Services Request Form

Please complete this form to request moving of furniture and equipment.

If you are completing this form for someone else, please give the name and phone number of the person who Facilities Services can contact for additional information. In completing the below form, be as specific as possible so the problem can be easily located.

Definitions of priority choices:

Emergency - Any condition which left unattended may cause bodily injury or property damage; unbearable environmental conditions in any occupied area; loss of electrical, heating/cooling or water/sewage service to a building or a major portion of a building; loss of essential services or equipment in housing unit areas. Please call the numbers listed at the top of this page for an emergency.

Urgent/Breakdown - Repair required within two working days to provide essential services, prevent excessive property damage, correct unsafe conditions and cover emergency conditions which are not severe enough to be classified as immediate emergency work requests.

Priority - Same as urgent/breakdown except repair required within three working days.

Routine - All other requests are classified as routine and will be completed as soon as scheduling constraints and availability of resources will allow.